FLS 242 - Intermediate Spanish II
Course Department: Humanities
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
4 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 60
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course reviews the basic elements of the Spanish language. There is intensive practice in oral and listening comprehension by using different resources in structural manner. Authentic Spanish language texts, films, and videos serve as the basis for the functional study of grammar and the acquisition of a broader vocabulary. Cultural topics are presented throughout the term. This class will help the student to be prepared for a diverse work force as well.
Prerequisites: FLS 241 - Intermediate Spanish I or 3 years of high school Spanish or its equivalent.
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face, virtual, and/or online
Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Express correctly ideas both written and oral communication in Spanish.
2. Use appropriate reading techniques to explore authentic material in the target language Spanish.
3. Apply the new vocabulary in both written and oral communication in Spanish.
4. Demonstrate a growing awareness of the influence of traditions and culture on a Hispanic population.
Course Objectives
Chapter 1: Sentir y vivir
- Las relaciones personales
- Cortometraje: Café para llevar
- Imagina: Estados Unidos
- Galería de Creadores: Álvarez, Gómez, Narciso Rodríguez.
- Flash Cultura: Las relaciones personales
- Estructuras: The present Tense, Ser and Estar, Gustar and similar verbs, Nouns and Articles, Adjectives.
- Cultura: Corriente Latina, Cultura en pantalla: Hispanos e inmigración en los Estados Unidos
- Literatura: Poema 20 (Pablo Neruda, Chile poesía)
Chapter 2: Vivir en la Ciudad
- En la Ciudad
- Cortometraje: Adiós mama
- Imagina: México
- Galería de Creadores: Gael García, Frida Kahlo, Poniatowsk
- Flash Cultura: El metro del D.F.
- Estructuras:The preterite, The imperfect, The preterite vs imperfect,Progressive Forms,Telling Time.
- Cultura: Juchitán: La ciudad de las mujeres, Cultura en Pantalla: Mujeres triquis de Oaxaca
- Literatura: Una lucha muy personal (Mercè Sarrias, España obra de teatro)
Chapter 3: Un mundo conectado
- Los medios de comunicación
- Cortometraje: Desconexión
- Imagina: El Caribe: Cuba, Puerto Rico y la Republica Dominicana
- Galería de Creadores: Julia de Burgos, Wilfredo Lam, Oscar
- Flash Cultura: El Cine Mexicano
- Estructuras: The Subjunctive in noun clauses, Object Pronouns, Commands, Possessive, adjectives and nouns, Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
- Cultura: Ritmos del Caribe
- Cultura en pantalla: Festival del merengue en la Republica Dominicana
- Literatura: La desesperación de las letras (Gines S. Cutillas, España)
Chapter 4: Generaciones en movimiento
- En familia
- Cortometraje: Sin palabras
- Imagina: Centroamérica: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panamá
- Galería de creadores: Gioconda Belli, Armando Morales, Camilo Miner
- Flash Cultura: De compras en Barcelona
- Estructuras: The Subjunctive in adjective clauses, Reflexive verbs, Por and para, To become: hacerse, ponerse, volverse and llegar a ser
- Cultura: Sonia Sotomayor: la niña que sonaba
- Cultura en pantalla: Sonia Sotomayor habla sobre su condición latina
- Literatura: El eclipse (Augusto Monterroso, Guatemala cuento)
Chapter 5: Las riquezas naturales
- Nuestro mundo
- Cortometraje: Raíz
- Imagina: Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela
- Galería de creadores: Marisol Escobar, Gabriel García Márquez, Oswaldo G
- Flash cultura: un bosque natural
- Estructuras: The future, The conditional, Relative Pronouns, Qué vs cuál, The neuter lo
- Cultura: La selva amazónica: biodiversidad curative y Plantas medicinales
- Literatura: La luna (Jaime Sabines, México poesía)
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